Automobile radiator-filling bucket



March 25, 1924. 1,487,888

' H. TESCHE AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR FILLING BUCKET Filed Dec. 1 1922Patented Mar. 25, 1924:.

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HARE-Y TESG HE, OF NEW "WESTMINSTER, BRETISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF T0 LENA COLBEK, OF VAITC OUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR-FILLING BUCKET.

Application filed December 1,1922. Serial No. 604,401.

T 0 all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY Tnsonn, a sub ject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at the city of New Westminster, in the Province ofBritish Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and usefulImprovement in Automobile Radiator-Filling Buckets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in buckets for filling automobileradiators or for other analogous purposes, with more particularreference to a device or attachment capable of being incorporated withor attached to an ordinary bucket, and the object of my invention is toprovide such a device or attachment by the use of which radiators may beeasily and conveniently filled without the use of a funnel and whicheliminates the spilling and waste which occurs when filling is done by abucket when used in the usual manner. A further ob ject is to rendersuch device capable of being used with great advantage for sprinklingpurposes, as in gardening or other work.

I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in theaccompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is an outside elevation of mydevice.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation.

Fig. 3 is an outside view of a collapsible bucket showing the deviceattached thereto. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of Fig. 8.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the lower end of a metal bucket showingthe device applied thereto for sprinkling purposes.

Similar figure of reference indicate similar parts throughout theseveral views.

The device may be applied advantageously to an ordinary metal bucket butit is preferably used in combination with a canvas collapsible bucketand in the drawings 1 indicates such a bucket having the bottom 2 andhandle 3. The device itself consists of a short tubular member 4 havingits upper end provided with an annular concentric flange 5 in which bolthole 6 are formed, these bolt holes registering with corresponding boltholes 7 formed in a loose ring flange 8 adapted to be passed over thetube 1 so that the two flanges 5 and 8 may be bolted together by bolts 9passed through the respective bolt holes 6 and 7. Seated on the upperend of the tube {i normally closing it is a valve 10 having a ring 11secured to its upper side and provided on its under side with a centraleye 12 to which eye is secured the upper end of a coil spring 13 thelower end of this spring being connected to an eye 14: formed atmidlength of a bar 15 extending transversely of and within the tube 4towards its lower end, the opposite ends of which are lidably mounted indiametrically opposite slots 16 and 17 cut in the tube wall, as shown inFig. 2, and these slots extend through the lower edge of the tube sothat the bar 15 may be readily withdrawn or replaced at any time, shouldit become damaged or broken, it being noted that it is held up inposition by the tension of the spring 18. 18 indicates a chain connectedat its lower end to the ring 11 on the valve and at it upper end to thehandle 3.

In attaching the device to the bucket a central hole 19 is cut in thebottom 2 of a size to permit the tube 4 to be passed therethrough andholes 20 are also formed in the bottom corresponding to the bolt holes 6and 7. Joints 21 and 22, of leather or other suitable material, are alsoprovided having bolt holes 23 and 24 similar to bolt holes 20. The tube4 is passed through the hole 19 from the inside of the bucket so thatthe flange 5 rests on the joint 21 which joint is first of allpositioned concentrically of the opening 19, after which the joint 22and loose flange 8 are placed over the tube 4: on the outside of thebucket to lie against the bottom, and then the flanges and joints arefirmly screwed together by the bolts 9, which pass through both thejoints, the flanges, and the bucket bottom, from which it will be seenthat the bucket is thus in effect provided with a valved nozzleprojecting from the bottom the opening of which is controlled by thepull on the chain 18, its closing being effected by the spring 13 whenthe pull on the chain is relaxed. The outside diameter of the tube ornozzle 4 being less than the inside diameter of the radiator fillingorifice it will be obvious that, the bucket being filled, the tube i maybe inserted into the said orifice and the contents of the bucket run offinto the radiator by simply pulling the chain 18 to raise the valve 10,the filling operation being eiiected in this manner simply andconveniently without spilling or waste.

Where the device is to be used for sprinkling the lower end of the tubeis exteriorly threaded, as at 25 in Fig. 5, to'rec-ive thecorrespondingly interiorly threaded end 26 of a rose 27, the bucket 28in this case being preferably of metal and provided with a lowerextension flange 29 of a depth sufficient to keep the rose clear of]?the ground when the bucket is deposited thereon;

What I claim as my invention is In a bucket, a tubular member projectingthrough the bottom thereof and provided at its lower end withdiametrically opposed notches, a bar freely mounted in said notches andextending transversely 'of'the bore of the tubular member, a valveseatedon the upper end of the said tubular member and normally closingsaid member'and a tension pring between the valve and the bar serving tohold the valve closed and the bar in place in the notches.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, at Vancouver, B.(3., this 21st day of November, 1922.

' HARRY TESCHE.

